We all know that no test is perfect, and few people are perfect, though many of us would like to be. The Structure of Intellect (SOI) test is an assessment of abilities and thinking. The SOI assessment is given in a timed situation, however, the main purpose of the test is to learn accurate information about students abilities. 

The SOI Tests are not tests of achievement, or of knowledge, or of how much one learned in school and retained. Many of the tests on this baseline assessment require students to think in new ways. The SOI analysis is new information, not complicated information. It gives us all an opportunity to find a beginning point to develop abilities.